Billy Bob Thornton Goes Full Frontal in One ‘Landman’ Season 2 Episode — Here’s the Truth
There seems to be no limit to how far Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter’s antics will go in Landman.
The Dec. 28th episode of Taylor Sheridan’s hit series opened with Tommy (Thornton) asleep in a hotel room, where a waitress was at the foot of the bed setting up a room service tray. When he woke up, rustling the sheets and exposing he was naked aside from a t-shirt, she screamed, begging him, “Don’t rape me!”
“Who the f— are you?” a confused Tommy asked. “I’m not gonna r@pe you.” Angela (Larter) then swooped in and told her husband, “Put your d!ck away,” before slipping the waitress a $100 bill. “Don’t be scared, darling. That wasn’t about you. He eats Cialis like M&Ms, runs into door jams all morning with that thing. So sorry about that.”
When the waitress left, Angela explained that she was trying to surprise Tommy with breakfast in bed, to which he said she “sure as s—” surprised him. “That is not the best angle of your ball sack, I might add,” Angela quipped. “I’d scream too.”
“You know, you really gotta love a man to look at him from there,” she continued, berating her husband for exposing himself below the belt. “Poor thing, if she wasn’t a lesbian when she walked in here, she’s a f—— lesbian now.” She then changed out of her nightgown as she told Tommy, “When my husband flashes the waitstaff, it kind of kills the mood.”
As Christian Wallace, who co-created the series with Taylor Sheridan, clarified, “it wasn’t an actual full-frontal” scene for Thornton, 70. A prosthetic was instead used for the memorable moment.
“We had an on-set intimacy coordinator, and the original prosthetic she brought in made everyone laugh,” Wallace told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview posted on Monday, Jan. 19. “We were like, ‘No.’ “
They opted instead for “a more humble alternative” for Thornton, Wallace said. “It is surprising to me that people think that was actually Billy doing full-frontal nudity,” Wallace continued.
Season 2 of the hit Paramount+ series about the oil industry in Texas wrapped up on Sunday, Jan. 18. The final scene of the season was a quieter one between Tommy and Angela, which Larter, 49, said was a “special” way to end.
“I live for those scenes, because so much of Angela, when I’m playing her, is high stakes, high emotion, something wild is happening,” she told PEOPLE. “To be able to have a really quiet scene, I just think it was an important and beautiful way to end the season.”
